Behaviour and Welfare: Moral Virtues
Our aim is to create a culture that promotes excellent behaviour which ensures that pupils can learn in a calm, safe and supportive environment and protects them from disruption.
We will ensure that all behaviour is consistent with the College’s Mission Statement “To act justly, to love with mercy and to walk humbly with our God” Micah 6:8 and our Trust motto “Aspire not to have more but to be more” and Matthew 18:21, 22.
“Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.”
We are dedicated to ensuring that our college environment supports learning and the well-being of pupils and staff through a strong sense of Christian community cohesion. Good behaviour and self-discipline have strong links to effective learning. We work hard to provide a safe College where pupils feel included in every aspect of College life and comfortable to voice their opinions.
The promotion of positive behaviour
We will ensure all of our pupils gain the necessary cultural capital that will ensure they are able to have a choice-filled life. As part of this, pupils develop social capital through exposure to key positive behaviours such as our moral values and LORIC skills that enhance their ability to succeed in life.
We believe that all pupils should be aware of the standards of behaviour expected at our College which are underpinned by our values. Positive relationships throughout the College are built on a set of shared values:
We want all of our pupils, during their time with us, to ‘Aspire To Be More’ meaning that they leave us gaining the cultural capital that will enable them to have:
- unlimited dreams and ideas that allow children to change the world
- a vision of what they want to achieve in life and how to achieve it
- a strong sense of duty, justice, responsibility, and service
- care and compassion toward each other within the local community and the wider world choice filled lives and the
- desire and motivation to develop as a good person with humility
- a positive contribution to local communities and wider society and a zest for living life to the full.
We want our pupils to do this not only because they must, but because they want to, and are mature enough to know how to do the right thing.
Students learn how to respond well to the challenges they face in everyday life and the values are those character traits that enable them to respond appropriately to situations.
The chart below shows the reasons why we believe pupils behave well.
It’s who I am – we afford our pupils opportunities to demonstrate our moral values in all aspects of College life and beyond
I want to have a great future – we want our pupils to experience all that EPC’s cultural and intellectual curriculum can offer to allow pupils to flourish
I want everyone to think positively about me – we want our pupils to demonstrate EPC’s social capital curriculum
I want praise – we want our pupils to be rewarded within the EPC’s social capital curriculum
The aim of our Behaviour Policy is to recognise pupils efforts at every level of this concentric circle which ultimately pupil behaviour reflecting moral values.
It is crucial that staff understand the importance of using a wide range of preventative and intervention strategies when dealing with behaviour. It is also important to remember that teaching and learning go hand in hand with behaviour, and that it is often the well planned, correctly pitched, and engaging lessons which promote positive behaviour which enables and encourages positive attitudes to learning.